Comments on: Cinderella Pumpkin ‘Rouge Vif d’Etampes’

By: Wrecka

Wrecka — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:43:16 +0000

Like Michelle I found your blog while searching rouge vif d’etampes. My parents are long time organic gardeners and now that they are retired are active at local farm markets and specialize in heirloom vegetables. As a child I would grow pumpkins and gourds and as an adult have always been curious about this variety. I bought one a Trader Joes recently. I found the color, flavor and yield to be far superior to ANY pie pumpkin I have ever encountered (avid pumpkin pie baker). Thank you for your seed saving suggestion, these will be growing in my parents pumpkin patch next year! Also thank you for all the links to the wonderful food blogs! Cheers!

By: Susy

Susy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:49:24 +0000

Thanks, I’ll probably be buying some. Mine grew beautifully from saved seeds: http://chiotsrun.com/2009/10/02/the-great-pumpkins/

By: Yvette

Yvette — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:24:32 +0000

If anyone is looking to order these seeds, Baker Creek Seed Co. carries them. I bought some last year and they turned out beautiful.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:03:26 +0000

Your photos are gorgeous. Just found your blog while searching Cinderella pumpkins. I bought one in New Hampshire and I am roasting it as I type. May I ask, is there any trick for drying out the seeds? I saved about 4 dozen of them. (right now they’re just wet and slimy!) I am a new homeowner and would like to collect seeds, and trade them as the years go by, heirlooms of course!
I am very interested in the organic garden, composting, ect. My guy is building me a raised garden with some of the space we have.
Thank you for your blog. I can’t wait to read how your pumpkins grew this year.
Michelle

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:09:40 +0000

I love pumpkin now that I’ve had it fresh! It’ll soon be time to go pumpkin picking and to the farmer’s market. I’d love to know how to grow the seeds but I usually roast them since I don’t know what to do.
Renee´s last blog ..Keepsake Pajamas!

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:35:46 +0000

I am a farmer growing Cinderella pumpkins for the first time for market. I am just starting to sell them and am just searching prices right now. I will tell customers how good the pies can be from them!

Anyway you can save seeds from open-pollinated heirloom varieties BUT they will only come true to seed if no other squashes were grown in the area. Otherwise they will be cross-pollinated with other varieties. That can be ok, but you can’t profess the seeds are true to type unless the flowers were isolated until fruited. The little fuzzy bees just go from flower to flower spreading all the pollen everywhere.

By: Tree

Tree — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:54:22 +0000

Now I am going to have to look this one up. If I can’t get it locally you have any seeds you would like to sell me?
How do you know what plants are open polinated (or those that can be grown from seeds from the plant) as opposed to cross-polinated or in need of another plant of a similar variety near by?
Tree´s last blog ..MY TOWEL HANDS OFF

By: Susy

Susy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:56:45 +0000

I made the packet on my computer.

By: bill

bill — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:38:51 +0000

where did you buy those seeds? that you show on your site that is the 9th h picture

thanks.. bill

By: Susie Braseth

Susie Braseth — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:22:57 +0000

How do I get some seeds for the French cinderella pumpkin. I can’t find them around here. The usual place I get them from locally didn’t have them this year. Thank you for your site.